Will Trump Follow the Example of Julius Caesar?

Trump will refuse to leave office. There is only one way to avoid the inevitable Constitutional crisis.

“It was challenging for me, coming from the disciplined, highly process-oriented Exxon Mobil Corporation, to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things, but rather just kind of says, ‘Look, this is what I believe, and you can try to convince me otherwise, but most of the time you’re not going to do that.’”

Those were the words of Rex Tillerson earlier this week. A publicly-stated opinion such as this by a relatively very recent Secretary of State concerning the sitting president is nothing short of unprecedented. He is saying in so many words that his former boss is not just ignorant, but willfully so, and is comfortable in his own ignorance. Add that to Trump’s apparent clinical malignant narcissism, and the result is a toxic brew indeed.

Currently, we are waiting on the results of Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation, but it’s pretty much a given that even if Mueller found incontrovertible proof of collusion (AKA “conspiracy”) with Russia in Trump’s presidential campaign, said proof would be greeted with a collective yawn by the media, and with tens of millions of Trump supporters would reject Mueller’s proofs as “fake news”. In other words, America is stuck with Trump until January 2021 at the very least.